Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: Temporary teachers of 2014, who are observing a hunger strike for the last two days in support of their demand for continuation of their service, today announced to extend their fast dharna by another day.
Holding placards and banners, the protesting teachers were seen raising slogans in support of their demands near the Press Club, where the ongoing hunger strike is being observed.
They appealed the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed and his deputy Dr Nirmal Singh and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar to personally look into the matter and address their issue. Both PDP and BJP stress for youth empowerment and it is the time for the Government to come upto the expectations of young generation by conceding to demands like ours, they added.
The protest dharna is being organized under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir Temporary Teachers Association-2014. A number of temporary teachers are taking part in the fast dharna.
Leaders of the Association, who addressed the fast dharna, termed their demand most genuine and vowed to take their struggle to a logical conclusion. “We were engaged by a Cabinet order and had been selected on merit basis among 60 thousand aspirants after proper procedure,” they said while justifying their demand for continuation of service.
The protesting teachers claimed that condition of some of their members, observing fast, was deteriorating.
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